Self Portrait with 9gb of Personal Google Data

This art work "Self Portrait with 9gb of Personal Google Data" attempts to move beyond the focus on digital identity as self made to highlight how our online selves are entangled with vast streams of personal data that also participate in constructing what might be called an unself. As Quinn (2016) suggests, the unself is never complete. It remains in constant flux — a transitional, non representational sense of an othered “self” that emerges through ongoing digital processes. This artwork argues that although data subjects are inseparably tied to their digital representations, they are not always in control of them. These data‑selves are never finished or stable; they are contingent formations, continually reshaped through shifting networks of mediation. The artwork is built in Unity WebGL and uses a 3-point semantic analysis of 9gigabytes of personal Google Data to deform a 3d scan /mesh of the artist's head. https://www.markcypher.com/self-portrait/index.php